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The samurai / Shusaku Endo ; translated by Van C. Gessel.
LIBRA - Special PL849.N4 S2413 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996
- Series:
- New Directions classics
- A New Directions classics
- New Directions paperback ; 839
- Standardized Title:
- Samurai. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Hasekura, Tsunenaga, 1571-1622--Fiction.
- Hasekura, Tsunenaga.
- Hasekura, Tsunenaga, 1571-1622.
- Conversion--Christianity--Fiction.
- Conversion.
- History.
- Conversion--Christianity.
- Japan--History--17th century--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Samurai--Fiction.
- Samurai.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1997.
- Summary:
- In the 17th Century, a Japanese trade delegation travels to Mexico accompanied by Father Velasco, a Franciscan missionary acting as interpreter. On the way he converts them, using the argument that this will assure the success of their mission. It doesn't and on their return to Japan they are persecuted for their new faith.
- Notes:
- Originally published. New York : Harper & Row : Kodansha International, 1982.
- ISBN:
- 0811213463
- 9780811213462
- OCLC:
- 36066123
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